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March 15, 2004  Workshops that tailor risk management to individual farmer's needs to be offered at 11 California locations
All people
have their own personal tolerance for taking risks. California farmers will learn their
own risk tolerance styles and apply them to practical risk-management
solutions that fit their farms and circumstances at 11 half-day Central and
Northern California workshops April 20-May 14. Following
are the target counties, workshop times, locations and registration contact
phone numbers: San Diego and Riverside counties - 8:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. April 23 - Farm Bureau
office, 1670 E. Valley Parkway, Escondido.
(brochure in
pdf) Contact: (858) 694-3666
Tulare and Kings counties - 3 to 8 p.m. April
26 - UC Cooperative Extension Ag Building,
4437 S. Laspina St., Tulare
. (brochure in
pdf) Contact: (559) 685-3303
Fresno County - 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April
27 - Center For Agricultural Business,
California State University, Fresno, 2910 E. Barstow Ave.,
Fresno
. (brochure in
pdf)
Contact: (559)
456-7285
San Joaquin County - 8:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. April 28 - UC Cooperative Extension conference room,
420 S. Wilson Way, Stockton
. (brochure in
pdf)
Contact: (209) 468-2085.
Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties - 1 to 5 p.m.
May 11 - Petaluma Community Center, 320
N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma. (brochure in
pdf) Contact: (707) 565-2621
Lake and Mendocino counties - 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
May 12 - Ukiah Valley Conference
Center, 200 South School Street, Ukiah. (brochure in
pdf)
Contact: (707) 463-4495
Humboldt County - 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May
13 - Agricultural Center at UC
Cooperative Extension office, 5630 S. Broadway, Eureka.
(brochure in
pdf) Contact: (707)
445-7351
Butte and Tehama counties - 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
May 14 - Small Business Development
Center, 19 Williamsburg Lane, Chico
. (brochure in pdf) Contact: (530) 895-9017 Participants will develop size-appropriate solutions to the five major agriculture risks: family/personal, financial, production, marketing and legal/regulatory.
Topics covered at the workshops will be:
A model for approaching farm risk - Farmers will get an overview of risk in agricultural businesses and be introduced to a practical one-sheet method to look at the various types of risks and develop management strategies for each of them.
Family and personal risk - Participants will come to understand their own risk tolerance and their family's risk-tolerance profile in order to focus on the risk-management strategies that will work best for them.
Financial risk - A presentation on how to effectively use an accountant for more than just taxes.
Production risk - Farmers learn about crop insurance and other strategies to manage production risk.
Market risk - Participants learn how to spot trends in the market and develop market strategies allowing them to be price makers, rather than price takers.
Legal and regulatory risk - A presentation on managing risk associated with workers' compensation, air and water quality and other regulations.
The workshop is intended for all farmers, ranchers or nursery operators, however, it will have information particularly useful for those with gross receipts of less than $250,000 per year and who have been operating for fewer than 10 years.
"The participants will learn scale-appropriate solutions to their risk problems. We will share new and emerging risk management programs to help in all farming operations," said David Visher of FACTS, an agricultural training firm that is coordinating the workshop.
Registration, including a binder of materials for each participant, is $20.
Presentation of the program is made possible by a grant from the USDA Risk Management Agency to the University of California Agricultural Issues Center. Other p artners are the Center for Agricultural Business at California State University, Fresno, FACTS and UC Cooperative Extension. |
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